REN'5 GARDENS tVERWHERE 



HERE IS A CHRISTMAS WISH FOR 

 CHILDREN EVERYWHERE — AS THE 

 GARDEN IS FULL OF PROMISE, BRIGHT- 

 NESS, GROWTH, SWEETNESS, AND 

 BEING JUST WHAT IT IS, SO MAY 

 YOU BRING TO CHRISTMAS THIS 

 SAME SPIRIT BORN ALWAYS IN THE 

 THINGS NATURAL OF THIS WORLD 

 Conducted by 

 ELLEN EDDY SHAW 

 New York 



Set a little potted tree as a 

 gift for the baby 



Christmas 

 Gifts 



CHRISTMAS is 

 with us again. 

 Not that it will be 

 that dear, old day 

 tomorrow, but the 

 spirit is here and 

 the need to get 

 busy. " What shall 

 I give the family ? " 

 each boy and girl 

 is thinking. Boys 

 and girls usually 

 have so little 

 money. This 

 means that you 

 must make a few 

 things. Had you 

 thought of making 

 the woods help you 

 out and your gar- 

 den things, too? 

 am sure mother 

 little juniper tree. 



This is possible. I 



would like a pretty 



carefully potted. Or let it be the 



baby's own private Christmas tree. This 



does not signify a dismantling of the 



woods. 



On these pages you will see a number 

 of garden things, and those growing out 

 of such work, which might act as Christmas 

 gifts. If you wish to have directions for 



the making of any one or more of these, 

 just write to this department. 



I suggest making a set of plant labels 

 for your father, if he gardens. 



Grandmother's gift is often a hard one 

 to decide upon. I know she would love 

 a dish of flowering Chinese hlies or paper 

 white narcissus. Perhaps you have one 

 of your earth-potted bulbs which is ready 

 for blooming. Paper white narcissus may 

 be planted even yet in stones and water. 

 Three weeks will bring such bulbs to flower- 

 ing. The bulb really does not need to be 

 blooming since the fun from a bulb comes in 

 watching it develop. 



Some one will like a set of seeds saved 

 from your garden. Make the envelopes 

 yourself and label them neatly. 



I believe I'd put on my hst — that is, the 

 list of things you want — some garden books. 

 There is not much sense in your being a 

 gardener and not having a few books on 

 this subject. Look over this list. You 

 will see some books you wish to own. 



The presentation list means those books 

 which your parents might present to you. 

 The information books are those which 

 take up matters in general and would be 

 of interest to your mother. Especially are 

 these helpful if your mother or big sister 

 is a club Avoman. Education books are 

 those which belong to your teacher, class 

 room or school library. 



Presentation Books 



ONE of the best known and loved of this 

 class of books is "Mary's Garden and 

 How It Grew. "(Century Company $1.25.) 

 It is a story of a little girl's garden, charm- 



ingly told. Any 

 child reading it 

 would just feel hke 

 going out right 

 straight off to gar- 

 den. I suppose 

 children over four- 

 teen years of age 

 would not care as 

 much for it as the 

 younger ones. A 

 lady by the name 

 of Frances Duncan 

 wrote this book. 

 Everyone loved it 

 so well she wrote 

 another. This book 

 is called "When 

 Mother Lets Us 

 Garden." This 

 book is for little 

 children. The lan- 

 guage is simple, the 

 directions clear. It 

 is the sort of Httle 

 book one would 

 like to read out 

 loud to the children. This 

 seventy-five cents. Moffat, 

 Company publish this one. 



I will tell you about another very lovely 

 book called "The Children's Book of 

 Gardening." It is English. The pictures 



A wooden garden stake 

 and reel will last almost 

 forever 



costs 

 Yard 



only 

 and 



A twenty-five cent gift — two Chinese Uly biolbs and 

 a glass dish 



Two presents, both made by 12-year-old boys— wicker 

 fern dish and Uttle ferns: a wooden pot rest 



A box, made of hard wood, may be handy forsmaU 

 garden utensils or seeds 



